New Jimny crushes it off-road: Time for Tea?
Roads? Where we're going we don't need... roads.
You want Jimny, we'll give you Jimny - 11 minutes of it, mostly off-roading and mostly brilliant. Doffed cap to Jalopnik, who alerted us to this video's artful combination of mud and B-roll melody. Naturally we toe-tapped our way through the whole thing, but if your tea break doesn't last quite that long, you'll be happy to hear that the best earth conquering moments occur in the first couple of minutes (although it does briefly go all slo-mo at 3.45).
What does it teach us? Well, that the Jimny's tradition of being ruggedly able off-road looks set to continue. The footage is Suzuki produced (the car launched there a couple of weeks ago) so naturally it's not going to film the car getting bogged down - but it serves to show that rigid axles and low range (and presumably tyres which aren't Trofeo Rs) are still going to get you a fairly long way down most muddy green lanes.
Stick with it, and there's plenty of studio-based reminders of why the Jimny is going to be as practical as a MOLLE rucksack, too. That's all part of its heritage, of course, which is on display in another even more splendid tribute video to the first gen model, including not only a potentially fatal jump shot, but also the world's greatest gloved-hand gear change 28 seconds in. Jimny!
Could be a hoot.
Although this looks more like the gen 2 (introduced in 1981), the gen 2 is not a copy of the G-wagen but an evolution of the gen 1 and at that time, all 4x4s more or less look the same...Isuzu Tropper / Mitsubishi Shogun (first gens) for instance...
So please stop saying it looks like a G-wagen, which frankly, well, is an over complicated machine, and comparing the Jimny to the G-wagen is like comparing an Alfa 4C to a Spyker C8...very different cars...
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